Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

Your fifth grader will have a blast sewing this plush neck pillow--and he'll sure be glad to have it on long car or airplane trips!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

This fun science fair project idea helps students learn how acid rains are formed and explore how acid rain damages the environment.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

In this activity, your child will use two powerful questions to investigate a thought and the truth behind it. They will write and perform a skit using mindfulness and these important questions.